Your most annoying quality as a bandmate

[M.Wrenn]

I have a really quick temper and an infuriating tenor sax player who likes to piss me off.

 

[aztomr]

I tend to be early, last night I showed up at 5:20 for a 6:00 rehearsal. I also like to play more than everybody else, I'd play every night if the rest of the band was willing.

 

[basscamel 420]

I tend to be early, last night I showed up at 5:20 for a 6:00 rehearsal. I also like to play more than everybody else, I'd play every night if the rest of the band was willing.

I'm the same way. We jam at the drummers house and I always show up early and it seems lik he is always eating dinner when I get there. And I always ask "you Guys wanna jam tonight" and the drummers always say "only Tuesday's and Thursday's!"

 

[zachoff]

I'm lazy. Lazy when it comes to practicing, lazy when it comes to writing songs, and lazy when it comes to writing lyrics. There are times when we'll have the majority of a song worked out for a few weeks & I'll still not have written any words for it. Other times I'll get a wild hair and knock one out in 15 minutes. Weird how that works. My drummer thinks my gear whorishness is pretty annoying too. Different pedals/basses/whatever all the time & usually only for a practice or two.

 

[Plantbrain]

I'll walk out if they are drunk or stoned.

 

[theduke1]

Leaving early to go to a gig. My feeling is, I'd rather be setup and sond checked with an hour to spare, then running around 5 minutes before start time trying to find out whats buzzing.
It makes my band mates nuts!!!!
Oh well that's just TFB!

 

[UncleJimmy]

I like people to do what they say they are going to do. Apparently, this is a new concept to some.....

 

[MatticusMania]

Leaving early to go to a gig. My feeling is, I'd rather be setup and sond checked with an hour to spare, then running around 5 minutes before start time trying to find out whats buzzing.
It makes my band mates nuts!!!!
Oh well that's just TFB!

+1 I try and alwasy show up at least an hour before we play. It takes me 15 min. to set up, but I prefer to be ready. It seems Murphys Law always gets the best of my band and I just think "well if you'd have shown up on time we'd have this all worked out by now". Im a stickler for punctuality. If we agree practice is at 6pm, dont show up at 7, show up before 6.

 

[jaywa]

I like to know as many of the details about a gig as possible BEFORE we get there. Actually, before we even leave town. What's the venue, how long is the drive, is it indoors or outdoors, are there opening acts, where are we staying, how much advance promotion has been done, etc. etc. Even though my role in the band is technically more of a sideman than a partner, I always feel better going into a gig knowing as much about it as possible rather than just getting in the van and seeing what happens.

I'm pretty sure this is the most annoying trait at least to my BL, who is a very aggressive and talented promoter / businessman (he does all of our own bookings), but by his own admission is really not detail oriented at all. He and I actually talked about this driving to a gig a few weekends ago. I had done quite a bit of research on the Web about this event we were going to, Google mapped the trip to get distance, looked up some photos of the town, etc. etc. So I'm talking about all this stuff and the BL just kind of laughs and says, "wow, how much time do you spend on the Web before our gigs anyway? I just show up to the venue and figure things out from there."

I think part of this stems from the fact that I'm 15 years older than the BL... I've seen a lot more things go wrong from lack of planning and I just have a little more appreciation for preparation and structure than I see in a lot of people of his generation. It's nothing where we've ever come close to a confrontation, and I think deep down the BL kind of appreciates me being the ying to his yang on that... but I also think there are times he'd rather I just lightened up on that a bit.

The other thing is, I tend to be pretty vocal and direct when I feel we have not played up to our ability and reputation. After a really bad gig (which are thankfully rare) I'm not above saying something like "guys we really sucked ass tonight. We're a lot better band than this... we need to step it up." I do however try to counterbalance this with equal praise after gigs we play well, and I NEVER call out an individual bandmate for a bad performance and I am also quick to apologize if my playing has been below standard.

 

[xxfaux_punkxx]

let's see worst qualities...

en-experienced
No car - requires rides from band mates
Mental illness can get in the way of practice if unchecked.
Constantly doubt my abilities.
Push my ability to far.
Not fast enough to play 1/16th notes
Move around to much in a tight practice space
Not assertive enough when voicing my ideas to the band.
Scatter brained at times and tend to zone out.

 

[wagstaff]

2) Somehow I am considered too neutral in taking sides in band squabbles. I am ridiculously not neutral in most aspects of my life, so I find this amusing. :hmm:

This.
Also, no form of own transport.
Not my fault however, as insurance for cars here is about £5000 for a new driver. That's on top of the car, petrol, road tax, MOT and other stuff I don't know about.

Mark

 

[CALopes]

Well... I'm never happy with our set (covers band), always criticize the vocalist to be out of pitch, the guitarist to be out of time, and even myself for not playing note for note. Also I don't like to do things on the spot, like learning tunes. I like to be at home, listening the original and working my way without the pressure.

 

[laCherry]

Forgetting that not everyone can repeat a song a million times to get it right - I'm a "do it til it's done" sort of girl and some of my band mates are "give it a good go but come back later if it doesn't work" sort of guys. Sometimes seemingly infinite patience can piss other people off if they don't have it.
I just fired a vocalist in one band who once said I didn't praise her up enough (but that was because she was terrible). That's an odd concept for me though because nobody else seemed to need it, and I'm a bad liar so I can't big someone up who doesn't deserve it. I'd rather say nothing than say something nasty, but I can't lie for toffee. Which can come in handy for those who need a touch of extra encouragement.
And I get nervous if I have to improvise too much at a gig. I can do it but I don't like it much.

 

[Howlin' Hanson]

My worst attritbute?? I do all the patter between songs, and it's seldom the same two times in a row, and I deliberately try to crack up the chick singer. (Hee, hee)

 

[Ripley]

I love too much.

Also, apparently it's craaaaaazy that I don't know how to play every Top 40 song since the 60's. Or so says my drummer, who believes in his own talent a bit too much for his own good and forgets that I have to play certain notes in a certain order to actually sound like a given song.

 

[AzzaKnoldy]

After every performance I end up screaming at my guitarist or singer about how badly it went

 

[Catbuster]

I forget the genre we're playing... And might start meat & potatoesing a prog song... Or I might prog-riff where it needs to be meat & potatoesd.

That, and I'm short tempered.

 

[marmadaddy]

I'm an arrogant son of a bitch who expects all of his bandmates to have some professional standards, to be listening and paying attention to the music and not to overplay, drop beats or lose the time. I don't care if you go for something out of reach and miss it every now and then, in fact, I like that, but just being sloppy because you don't give a f#^$ really pushes my buttons. Being drunk or high is not an excuse. If you don't know how to play, it's not your fault, but if you do know how to play, do it right and only make the same mistake once. If you are a drummer, it's your responsibility to play in time, no matter how "creative" you want to be, so just do it. OK, got that off my chest.

I could have written this myself however I don't consider this attitude to be a "bad quality".

The problem tends to be in how I communicate the above to other people. Working on it though.

 

[jive1]

I fart on stage.

 

[klejst]

I always seem to be too loud, I am constantly told by my guitarists if I could turn down at little . But I love turning it up and just rocking the F out. Throw a little grunge edge into that rock and holy moly! Also when someone is talking between songs at practice seem to constantly play walking bass lines...oh an I cannot sing to save my life.

Oh and jive1 that is hilarious!